Earl of Clanricarde is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, first in 1543 and again in 1800. The former creation became extinct in 1916 while the 1800 creation is extant and held by the Marquess of Sligo since 1916.
William Óge Martyn was the 101st Mayor of Galway.
Sir Uilleag (Ulick) de Burgh (Burke), 1st Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar was an Irish chieftain and noble who was leader of one of the three factions who fought the Burke Civil War in the 1330s. By the end of the conflict he had established himself and his descendants as Clanricarde, also known as Mac William Uachtar, independent lords of Galway. He was succeeded by his son, Richard Óg Burke, 2nd Clanricarde (d.1387).
Richard Óg Burke, 2nd Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar was an Irish chieftain and nobleman who was the son of Sir Ulick Burke or Uilleag de Burgh, 1st Clanricarde (d.1343/1353).
Clanricarde, also known as Mac William Uachtar or the Galway Burkes, were a fully Gaelicised branch of the Hiberno-Norman House of Burgh who were important landowners in Ireland from the 13th to the 20th centuries.
Ulick na gCeann Burke, 12th Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar, 1st Earl of Clanricarde was an Irish noble and son of Richard Mór Burke, 9th Clanricarde (d.1530) by a daughter of Madden of Portumna.
Galway, one of the largest cities in Ireland, situated on the west coast of Ireland, has a complex history going back around 800 years. The city was the only medieval city in the province of Connacht.
Richard Sassanach Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde was an Irish noble who succeeded his father Ulick na gCeann Burke, 1st Earl of Clanricarde as chief of a Gaelicised Norman family with authority over much of what is now County Galway. Richard's nickname was Sassanach "Englishman", because he took the English part during the Tudor reconquest of Ireland.
Dominick Lynch was mayor of Galway, Ireland.
Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde, styled Lord Dunkellin until 1582, was an Irish peer who was the son of Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde and Margaret O'Brien.
William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde, PC (Ire), was an Irish peer who fought in his youth together with his brother Richard, 6th Earl of Clanricarde under their cousin, Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde against the Parliamentarians in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He succeeded his brother as the 7th Earl in 1666.
John "na Seamer" Burke, Baron Leitrim, also known as John of the Shamrocks, was one of the notorious half-brothers called the meic an Iarla, whose conflicts with each other and their father, Richard Burke, 2nd Earl of Clanricarde, caused devastation to south Connacht several times between the late 1560s and early 1580s.
Geoffrey Browne was an Irish lawyer and politician.
Maire Lynch, Countess of Clanricarde, fl. 1547.
Redmond Burke, Baron Leitrim was an Irish noble and soldier who served in Spain and later in Ireland during the Nine Years' War.
John mac Richard Mór Burke, 10th Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar, was an Irish chieftain and noble.
Ulick Fionn Burke, 6th Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar was an Irish chieftain and noble.
Ulick Ruadh Burke, 5th Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar was an Irish chieftain and noble who was the son of Ulick an Fhiona Burke, 3rd Clanricarde (d.1424).
Events from the year 1580 in Ireland.
Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway was an Irish army officer who was slain at the Battle of Aughrim while fighting for the Jacobites during the Williamite War in Ireland.
